For the third time in two weeks, LSU basketball coach Matt McMahon has pulled in a Louisiana native from the NCAA transfer portal.
Guard Carlos Stewart, who starred at The Dunham School, announced his homecoming Tuesday after playing the past two seasons at Santa Clara of the West Coast Conference.
He’s the fourth transfer this offseason for LSU, joining guards Jordan Wright (Vanderbilt) and Jalen Cook (Tulane) and center Will Baker (Nevada) as newcomers to McMahon’s program.
Stewart played in 66 games with 35 starts in his two seasons at Santa Clara, where he was a first-team All-WCC pick this past season.
He started all 33 games and was Santa Clara’s second-leading scorer with 15.2 points a game. He also averaged 2.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.8 steals as the Broncos went 23-10 overall and 11-5 in league play.
The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Stewart shot 44.1% from the field and 40.3% from 3-point range. He also made 83.2% of his free-throw attempts.
At Dunham, Stewart led his team to back-to-back state titles in 2020 and ’21 and was Louisiana’s No. 2 recruit in the 2021 class by ESPN.com.
As a senior, he was named Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year and won the Farm Bureau/Mr. Basketball Award from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
Stewart averaged 28.2 points, 4.3 assists and 3.1 steals as a junior, then went for 31.7 points, 3.7 assists and 3.2 steals as a senior.
As a sophomore at Dunham, Stewart played alongside Wright, who chose LSU on April 5 after four seasons at Vanderbilt.
Wright is taking advantage of the COVID-19 bonus season granted by the NCAA to play a fifth year as a graduate student with the Tigers.
Two days after Wright’s announcement, Cook, a former Walker High School star who played at LSU as a freshman before transferring to Tulane, said he would be returning.
Cook was a first-team All-American Athletic Conference pick for Tulane the past two seasons; Baker was a third-team All-Mountain West Conference selection this season.
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